What We Offer
Somatic Movement Coaching & Personal Training
Making the connection to balance your health, fitness, mental & emotional wellbeing.
As a Somatic Movement Coach, I will help you to get an understanding of what inhibits your training or exercise causing lack of progress. Regain awareness of your movement, enhancing your health and well-being.
With over 20 years of experience as a Personal Trainer. Working with clients who want to improve their health, fitness, stamina and strength. Clients who have specific medical conditions, who are in cancer rehabilitation or need to exercise to support their mental health.
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Somatic practice is the missing link in movement education and healthcare based on the work by Thomas Hanna.
The technique used to restore voluntary sensory and motor control of muscles is ‘pandiculation’ rather than stretching. Releasing blocks and tension in the muscles. It teaches you to get out of pain or restrictive movement.
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A bespoke 8-week program of 60 minute sessions. Offering a plan to help address your specific needs.
A hands on approach guiding you through movements to help you address specific needs.
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An eight week group class on a Monday evening or Tuesday morning.
Each eight week block focuses on a specific theme.
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Personal Training with me is about improving your physical, practical, emotional and mental resilience. Achieving greater mobility, strength and fitness.
Functional and practical movement training. Making your changes in fitness and health less of a chore and more a way of life.
Qualified & Certified
Why somatic coaching?
To overcome existing habits
Habits are behaviours that are repeated, fairly automatically, caused by the environment we move in.
They are difficult to control or change without intention or awareness of what needs to change.
Somatic movement practice teaches you to become more aware of the sensation of movement.
You then learn through practical skills how to change.
Relieve Tension
Improve Movement
Improve Performance
Become Fitter
Typical clients
Whether you are runners, weightlifters, or dancers, athletes constantly push their bodies to the limit, often overriding internal pain signals to achieve external performance goals.
Athletes & High-Performance Movers
Modern desk jobs force the body into static, repetitive postural behaviours for hours on end. The brain then creates a "lock-in" pattern to keep certain muscles permanently switched on.
Corporate Professionals
Creating a long healthy life" - as we experience the natural physiological and physical changes through the stages of life - structural and hormonal shifts change our ability to stay strong and resilient.
Creating a long healthy life
Pre and post natal
Enhance your ability to cope physically. Better posture equals less back or hip pain. Alleviates many pregnancy symptoms. Reduces postural coping habits post partum.
Cancer Rehabilitation Clients
A cancer diagnosis and any treatment can demand a physical and emotional challenge we are not naturally prepared for.
The mind and body has to learn a new way of healing. Learning to cope with a loss of control of our own body can take us into a guarded state or fight, flight or more commonly freeze.
About me
I discovered traditional resistance training in my early twenties, it boosted my self-confidence and positive mental attitude towards health and fitness (I wasn’t sporty at school and didn’t enjoy team sports).
After having children in my mid-thirties I wanted to find a way of being strong and mobile for life and to help others to achieve that. I retrained from a career in Event Logistics and Television Production to become a Personal Trainer at the age of 40.
I have over 20 years of experience as a Master Trainer, working in large fitness companies and independently. During the pandemic in 2020, I decided to leave the world of the larger fitness industry and continue working independently as I could offer a more personal service to existing and new clients.
Let’s Work Together
If you would like to work with me, please complete the form below and I’ll call you to chat through your needs and discuss a plan of action for your goals.
